Chapter 5 Schistosomiasis
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The plan of the year lies in the spring, and there are many things to do at the beginning of the new year, farmers should prepare for spring ploughing, planting mulberry and raising silkworms, plowing the fields and cultivating the land to ensure that people have enough to eat, and planting mulberry and raising silkworms is related to whether people have clothes to keep out the cold.
For the government, this means that the rent of the year can not be collected, the rent is the field rent, the household adjustment, the field rent is collected by grain and the household is levied by silk fabrics, the Zhou State implements the rent modulation, and the person who has a room (married Ding Man) rents about five rice (stones) every year according to the annual scenery, and one to three horses of silk or cloth, and the unmarried person is halved.
In order to ensure financial revenue, all things that hinder farming and silkworm breeding must be solved, but what Bazhou Thorn Shi Yuwen Wenwen is anxious to do now is another thing.
On the desk is the statistical results reported by the counties, which is the distribution of a bulging disease that Yu Wenwen asked the counties to count at the beginning of his tenure, and the stomachs of people with this disease will gradually swell like a bulge, although they will not die immediately, but they will lose their ability to work and can only wait for death.
As long as there is no doctor or miracle doctor who can cure this disease, if the disease is rampant, the whole village of men, women and children will not be spared, and there will even be a desperate village, speaking of the 'scientific name' of this disease in later generations is a bit terrifying: schistosomiasis.
Present at the 'meeting' were Chang Shi Ren Chong, Don't Drive Xu Shao, Zhizhong Hao Wu Bo and the main Bo Zhengtong, they originally thought that Shi Yu Wenwen was going to arrange the division of labor to 'persuade farmers to raise silkworms', but they could hear that the other party was puzzled when he mentioned this bulging disease.
"Envoy, I often see this bulging disease, I don't know what's wrong with it?" Lord Bo Zhengtong asked, he had been a grassroots petty official, and he knew that the disease investigated by Yu Wenwen was a common disease, and he didn't know what the purpose was.
"Since Zheng Zhubo knows about this disease, he should also know what the consequences will be, right?" Yu Wenwen asked. The disease will cause a large number of workers and livestock (mainly cattle) to be wasted, which will seriously affect agricultural production.
Today's two lakes are not the granary of the world in later generations. The low degree of development and small population, but most of them are high-incidence areas of schistosomiasis, which can be said to be worse. The total number of people in Bazhou, a small state with less than 20,000 households, is not even as good as that of a county in the Central Plains, which makes Yu Wenwen, who is bent on rioting, have a headache.
"Do you mean to cure this bulging disease? There is no cure for those Gu worms. Zheng Tong was a little surprised when he heard this, the swelling disease is said to be caused by Gu worms in the water, and there has always been no cure, and the only thing the people can think of is to avoid the epidemic water.
However, most of the fertile land that has been cultivated for a long time is occupied by the family, if you are not careful, you will be infected with swelling disease, and finally the family will be ruined, which is why many barren beaches and wild lands have not been able to be reclaimed, if you can solve this problem, it will really benefit thousands of families.
"This official is not a miracle doctor, so naturally he doesn't know how to treat it." Yu Wenwen doesn't pretend to be a ghost, he can't make a special medicine in this era. "But the officer knows how to prevent it."
Schistosomiasis was mainly raging in the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River, and was a stubborn disease until the twentieth century, and was once extinct in the sixties and seventies under the vigorous control of the government, but later it recurred.
When a person or livestock comes into contact with snails, the schistosomal cercariae (larvae) that live in the snails burrow into the body/livestock through the skin and then grow and ovulate in the liver, spleen, and intestines, and the patient is emaciated, hydroscites, or loses labor with a big belly and finally dies, and the same is true for livestock.
This disease was a terminal disease in ancient times, and if you want to cure it, only modern society has a special medicine, so now as long as you get it, you can only wait for death, and the only thing you can do is to prevent it: do not contact with the epidemic water, eliminate the only intermediate host, the snail, investigate and treat schistosomiasis, and eliminate the source of infection (human and animal feces).
Hearing Yu Wenwen talk about snails, Zheng Tong was a little incredulous. Don't come into contact with the epidemic water, he understands, but what is the relationship between snails and Gu worms, he really doesn't understand, Yu Wenwen doesn't talk nonsense, and directly makes a conclusion: "Where there are snails, there may not be Gu worms, but where there are Gu worms, there must be snails!" ”
Snails are the only intermediate host of schistosomes, so the most effective measure to control them is to kill them. The feces of those patients contain schistosomiasis eggs, so they need to be treated intensively, and the reason why he collects the distribution of bulging disease is to take measures.
Don't drive Xu Shao, Zhizhong Hao Wu Bo is a rich man of the 'third generation of officials', Langjun has only heard of swelling disease, but his impression of snails is very vague, but they feel that since Yu Wenwen said so, it should be right.
"Therefore, the first task is to check whether there are any snails in the lakes, ponds, rivers, ditches and beaches near the farmland on the border of Bazhou." Yu Wenwen said with a solemn face, "According to the statistics in the report, all the people in the epidemic village should move to one place to live in a concentrated place to avoid the spread of the disease."
"No one or livestock are allowed to go to the farmland in those villages until it is disposed of, and the nearby ditches and ponds must also be investigated."
According to statistics, there are not many villages with swelling disease in Bazhou, so Yuwenwen breathed a sigh of relief, but decided to implement schistosomiasis prevention and control measures, and took precautions.
"Xu Beijia, this time you are responsible for directing the construction of water conservancy, the original ditch should be investigated, don't introduce the infected water into the fertile land, otherwise it will be a tragedy in the world."
Yuwenwen asked Xu Shao to be in charge of water conservancy construction, the main crop in the south of the Yangtze River is rice, so if you want to have a bumper yield, then building water conservancy is a thing that must be done, the Yangtze River embankment will not be a thought about for a while, but ditches and small dams can be made.
In recent years, the Bazhou border has experienced wars, so some ditches are seriously blocked, and Yu Wenwen handed over the responsibility of water conservancy construction to Xu Shao, which also placed high hopes on him and the staff group behind him.
Xu Shao said that the construction of water conservancy requires a large number of people, and the young and strong people gathered in a big fight, so they had to send troops to follow the scene, and Yuwenwen asked Ren Chong, the chief historian present, to coordinate the matter.
"Zheng Zhubo is responsible for moving all the patients to live together, the address is up to you, and the settling-in allowance will be withdrawn from the treasury, remember, everyone in the epidemic village must be moved, and the sick livestock will be extinguished on the spot and not allowed to flow to the market as meat."
"Hao Zhizhong is responsible for arranging people to investigate snails, starting from the vicinity of Xiyang City, near the cultivated farmland and the beaches and lakes and ponds where fishermen often fish."
"Remember, don't take the lead in going into the water to investigate, just let someone go there." Yu Wenwen didn't want to let his people become 'big belly', the reason why he was so close to the enemy was because his soldiers also had to participate in plowing the fields.
Bahe City has been held in his hands, and the countless fertile fields under the name of the Lu family have been distributed to meritorious soldiers, with the fields, everyone is full of energy, just waiting for the spring ploughing, although this is a mature field that has been cultivated for many years, but he still has to check it first before he can rest assured.
The state soldiers and soldiers add up to at least 4,000 people, and these 4,000 young people don't go to help with farm work, it's simply a tyrannical thing, but the only thing he worries about is schistosomiasis.
The schistosomiasis situation in Bazhou is not serious, but he has to be prepared, farming in the Yangtze River basin has to face this problem wherever he goes, and of course there is another problem to face, although there is no humanity, someone must give orders.
"After figuring out the situation, let the death row prisoners do the handling of the epidemic water snails!"
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